February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
734 pages
38h 13m
English
Astute readers may have noticed that using pg_basebackup to copy the entire database following a minor upgrade is somewhat wasteful. We agree! In later recipes, we will make use of rsync or PostgreSQL-specific software to perform these tasks instead. This recipe was already pretty long, and setting up rsync properly for this operation would have added quite a bit more time. The point is to show you the switching process; feel free to substitute better methods you know for synchronizing data.
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